I downloaded the adverse events quarterly data files from the FEARS website and I merged and cleaned them to use them in my next analytics pipeline. I was asked if I can download all the drug adverse events with demographic information (sex, age,..), drug name, indication for use, reactions, outcome, etc directly from the openFDA API. Is that possible?
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There is limited demographic data in the adverse event records, but the ones that you asked for are on the patient record:
patient: {
"patientonsetage": "59",
"patientonsetageunit": "801",
"patientsex": "2",
"patientweight": "78",
"patientdeath": {
"patientdeathdate": "20030401",
"patientdeathdateformat": "102"
},
"drug": [...],
"reaction": [...],
}
Most of the reference information can be found here (we are currently refactoring the website, so there will be a few new references on some fields that were recently added).
Hope that helps.
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Thank you Hans Nelsen. So, can I download all the drug adverse events data, with all columns, as zipped JSON data? I want to download everything available on the openFDA drug adverse events database. I want to use it for machine learning analytics and I want all variables and all observations. Mar 25, 2016 at 19:29